La Terre qui meurt

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...view of peasant life, but after travels in Spain and Italy, begun in 1893, he acquired an insight into the universality of peasant themes that is reflected in his later, more forceful novels.
La Terre qui meurt (1899; “The Dying Earth”) deals poignantly with the theme of emigration, as one by one the younger generation of a Vendée family leave their impoverished...